Michael Nagle
A 13-year-old boy was killed in an apparent subway surfing mishap in Queens on Wednesday — the latest deadly result of the stunt that often goes viral on social media, cops said.
Police responded to a 911 call about an unconscious person at the Forest Avenue subway station just before 10 p.m. and pronounced the teenager dead on the scene, according to officials.
His identity hasn’t been released.
Wednesday’s incident would be the fifth subway surfing death this year.
It comes just over a month after 11-year-old Cayden Thompson was struck in the head by a low metal beam and killed while riding on top of a G train in Brooklyn on Sept. 16.
Distraught relatives and friends of Thompson gathered a week later for his funeral, where his grandmother blamed his school for the tragic death.
“How could he just walk out of the school?” she said at the time of the funeral.
“I don’t understand that. How is a baby sneaking out of the school? You just let him go.”
The alarming trend has prompted state and city leaders to launch a public information campaign to educate teens about its dangers, but incidents appear to be increasing over last year, according to NYPD data.
New schools chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos said in a statement on Thursday afternoon that the most recent tragedy has prompted the education department to hold a community forum on school safety on Saturday.